Tishrin July 23, 2007 (Syria) In Arabic: “The International Human Rights Award.†Israel, represented by the stereotypical hook-nosed Jew, has claimed first, second and third prizes.
When "Alladin" was pilloried by Arab audiences as perpetuating anti-Arab stereotypes, the main complaint was that Jaffar, the evil character, had a hooked-nose! There is a cognitive dissonance at play here: those who say that Arabs cannot be antisemitic because they are semites themselves, at the same time pointing to crudely antisemitic perceptions of Jews.
Or when Edward Said interpeted Shylock as an example of European orientalism towards the Middle Eastern peoples (he meants Arabs) while Arab commentators in the media called even Clinton a "Shylock" for not accepting Arab mythology as a sound basis for political arrangements. (Dennis Ross too).
Explaining this kind of intense self-hatred and inner tensions in identity can fill the pages of quite a few PhD dissertations.
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Hook nosed Jew?
Those Arabs should take a look at pictures, not cartoons, of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. He had nose an anteater would be proud of.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1585000/images/_1586052_king-faisal-ap-150.jpg
It boggles the mind, truly.
When "Alladin" was pilloried by Arab audiences as perpetuating anti-Arab stereotypes, the main complaint was that Jaffar, the evil character, had a hooked-nose! There is a cognitive dissonance at play here: those who say that Arabs cannot be antisemitic because they are semites themselves, at the same time pointing to crudely antisemitic perceptions of Jews.
Or when Edward Said interpeted Shylock as an example of European orientalism towards the Middle Eastern peoples (he meants Arabs) while Arab commentators in the media called even Clinton a "Shylock" for not accepting Arab mythology as a sound basis for political arrangements. (Dennis Ross too).
Explaining this kind of intense self-hatred and inner tensions in identity can fill the pages of quite a few PhD dissertations.